DISCUSSIONS - A Labor Viewpoint

AUTHOR(S)

Cooper, Herman

PUB. DATE

October 1954

SOURCE

Industrial & Labor Relations Review;Oct54, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p85

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Herman Cooper, who has represented unions in many arbitration proceedings, suggests that arbitrators tend to aggrandize power and to offer judicial opinions rather than judicious solutions to labor relations problems.

ACCESSION #

6469569

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